A participant in a procession sponsored by the Association of Transgender
People in the Philippines and TransMan Philippines gets some help under the hood ahead of the Santacruzan parade
in Manila. The march celebrates International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia.

A street performer poses for photos with visitors
at a park in Donetsk, Ukraine. Civilians tried to get on with their daily lives in Dontesk as the political and
military crisis continued in eastern Ukraine ahead of presidential elections scheduled for May 25.

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Pick a peck of pre-pickles:

A Palestinian farm worker picks cucumbers in a field near the West Bank city of Jenin. Most of the cukes are
sold to Israeli factories where they are processed, pickled and sold in markets in Israel and the West Bank.

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Creature comfort:

Kalluk rolls on some of the 28 tons of snow the San Diego Zoo trucked in to mark Endangered
Species Day. Donations to the zoo made the event possible.

Creature comfort:

Kalluk rolls on some of the 28 tons of snow the San Diego Zoo trucked in to mark Endangered Species Day. Donations to the zoo made the event possible.

Photo: Ken Bohn, Associated Press

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Dune baggies:

Rachel Bennett (left) and Tiffany Threadgould leap into the air as a friend takes their photograph during the Hands
across the Sand protest in Miami Beach. Between them, covered in plastic bags, is Steve Vincenti. The purpose of
the event was to raise awareness of the need to end dependence on fossil fuels and transition to clean
energy.

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Save our bacon:

Serbians wait to be evacuated from their flooded home in Obrenovac, about 25 miles
west of Belgrade. Floods across Bosnia and Serbia have claimed at least 14 lives and led to the evacuation of
15,000 people in the Balkans' heaviest rainfall in a century.

Emiratis sail in the Al-Gaffal traditional long-distance dhow race between the island of Sir Bu Nair, near the Iranian coast, and the Gulf emirate. The race,
known as the Gaffal, has a total of 10 million dirhams ($272,000) in prizes.

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Toasted Tinkerbells:

In Manila's La Loma district, a worker prepares roasted pigs dressed as fairies for
a parade. The cooked pigs, known as lechon, are hugely popular in the Philippines and La Loma is considered the
best place to buy them. The district often showcases their famous product in "humorous" fashion.

Human body painting has yet to catch on in China, which prefers body-painting bovine subjects. Artists from eight countries painted buffaloes to compete for a $16,000 prize during
the competition in Jiangcheng county, Yunnan province. This appears to be the Vietnamese entry.

A youth points a G.I. Joe-scale toy gun at Israeli soldiers during clashes in Kafr
Aqab, that reportedly left several Palestinian teens injured. The violence erupted after an Israeli army unit
advanced into the town near the West Bank city of Ramallah.